[UK] Positive role model Paris wins at National Diversity Awards
A WOMAN from Hucknall has won a national award for her work to improve media representations of transgender people.
Paris Lees was given the award for Positive Role Model for LGBT at this year's National Diversity Awards at Manchester's Midland Hotel last month.

[Canada]Transgender support group mourns homicide victim
A Vancouver support group for the transgender community is mourning the loss of one of their members after she was stabbed to death on Saturday.
Police identified the victim of New Westminster’s first homicide of the year Thursday as 26-year-old January Marie Lapuz, who legally changed her name from John Carlo Embo Lapuz in 2008.

[USA]$25K reward offered in Cordova case
Thanks to city funding and a community donation, investigators may be one step closer to find the killer of local transwoman Kyra Cordova

[IA, USA] UIHC LGBT Clinic to open Monday
Two University of Iowa physicians are teaming up to start University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clinic, and some advocates say it’s a step toward reducing barriers for those patient populations.

[NH, USA] Health Services adds hours, LGBTQ support
Following an evaluation in 2010, Health Services has implemented a number of changes this semester including additional hours, advancement in online accessibility and improved support for transgender students.

[PA, USA] On the Gaydar: Philly Trans March and Outfest
Members of the local transgender community will take to the streets this week for the second annual Philly Trans March. The event, which starts at Love Park, begins with a rally, continues with a march through Center City and returns to Love Park for performances by local transgender artists. The purpose of the march is to draw attention to both the accomplishments and the challenges of Philadelphia’s transgender, transsexual and gender-variant individuals.

[Brazil] Transgender face highest murder rate in Brazil
Brazil continues to witness the murder of transgender citizens in what local rights groups and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists have said is “alarming.”

[Argentina] Argentina’s New Gender Law Is Making Life Way Easier for Trans People
A helpful new law that simplifies the process for changing one's name and gender on an ID card (and covers sex procedures like sex reassignment under health care) aims to make joining the mainstream population a much more attainable goal for transgender citizens in Argentina. In other countries, the gender/name change process can wind a byzantine bureaucratic course through medical procedures or court appearances. This in turn presents trans people with a pretty significant obstacle between them and the activities that other citizens take for granted, such as applying for and securing a new job.